Resources
Below, you’ll find a selection of resources chosen to aid you toward reclaiming your relationship with food and health. Delve into the science behind weight stigma and its impact on health outcomes, and explore the lived experiences of others as they navigate their paths towards cultivating healthy relationships with food.
Websites
Ragen Chastain's newsletter
Examining weight science, weight stigma, and what evidence, ethics, and lived experience teach us about best healthcare practices and public health for higher weight people.
Health at Every Size Principles
Health at Every Size Principles serve as the guideposts for our work. They are the enduring beliefs underlying our work, as science evolves and new information emerges.
Project Heal: Easier Treatment
Project HEAL’s vision is to create a world where everyone with an eating disorder has the opportunities & resources they need to heal.
Yoga for all
bodies
Enjoy a variety of free practices on the Yoga for All Bodies YouTube Channel! Explore Gentle Yoga, Relaxation, Rolling Self-Massage, and Guided Meditation, all designed to be accessible for everyone.
Podcasts
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Helping people make peace with food since 2013. Registered dietitian nutritionist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and journalist Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS talks with guests and answers listener questions about making peace with food, healing from disordered eating…
Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back
Join fat activists Marquisele Mercedes (she/her), Da’Shaun Harrison (they/them), Caleb Luna (they/them), Bryan Guffey (they/them), and Jordan Underwood (they/he) as they break down how and why anti-fatness shows up in our lives and relationships.
Maintenance Phase podcast
Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes have started a new podcast called Maintenance Phase. The podcast is a critique of the wellness industry and aims to be skeptical of health claims. Many health podcasts do not challenge the industry, and instead promote weight loss as the sole indicator of health.
Books
Christy Harrison
The Wellness Trap
A searing critique of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being that “will change the way you think about your health-in all the best ways”
(Casey Gueren)
Tressle Mcmillan
Thick: And Other Essays
Thick “transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness, black misogyny, and status-signaling as means of survival for black women” with “writing that is as deft as it is amusing”
(Darnell L. Moore)
Sonya Renee Taylor
The Body Is Not an Apology
This book offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our strength.
Lindy West
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Women
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible — like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you — writer and humoristLindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.
Christy Harrison
Anti-Diet
In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness. It will turn what you think you know about health and wellness upside……
Aubrey Gordon
What We Don't Talk About.....
Advancing fat justice and changing prejudicial structures and attitudes will require work from all people. What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat is a crucial tool to create a tectonic shift in the way we see, talk about, and treat our bodies…..
Aubrey Gordon
"You Just Need to Lose Weight"
In “You Just Need to Lose Weight,” Aubrey Gordon equips readers with the facts and figures to reframe myths about fatness in order to dismantle the anti-fat bias ingrained in how we think about and treat fat people.
Sabrina Strings
Fearing the Black Body
An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness……